Mentorship, Outreach, and Teaching

We can take it upon ourselves to build an inclusive community for teams to collaborate with and learn from. Internally-driven investment in professional development extends the impact of a team member and takes the weight off the organization’s experts as new users are able to take on more tasks.

Stony Brook WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) working up some of the day’s data from our mini-study on blue crab temperature-dependent aerobic and anaerobic metabolism.

Teaching

Organizer for Openscapes Workshop. 2021 - Present. NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

Co-wrote a proposal to bring Openscapes training workshops to AFSC. Training coming soon.

Co-teacher and Co-organizer. 2021. NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

Co-host and organize a 5-week entry-level R-Users workshop for 15 coworkers in the AFSC RACE groundfish assessment program. Developed a curriculum, lesson plans, and assignments.
Links: Lesson Website

Co-teacher and Co-organizer. 2020. NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology Division of Economics and Social Analysis.

Co-hosted a Workshop for Social Scientists for over 60 participants from across the country and across centers
Links: Lesson Website

ArcGIS Teaching Assistant. 2015. Sustainability Studies Program, Stony Brook University.

Introduction to ArcGIS, taught by Professor Maria Brown.
Worked with students to develop multi-map projects aimed at answering questions in hydrology, weather, climate change, and marine science for unique final projects in ArcGIS.
Provided comments and assessments of presentations, quizzes, and homework assignments.
Held office hours and provided computer assistance.

Visiting scientist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Expert Is In Program. There, we talked about about how fish are caught in recreational and commercial fisheries, fishing gear, and sustainable seafood.

Mentoring

Mentor. 2020 - 2021. University of Washington School on the Environment Undergraduate Capstone Program.

Mentoring student investigating the purple-orange sea star and bivalve climate change-driven distribution changes in Alaska’s eastern Bering Sea.

High School STEM Competition Mentor and Volunteer. 2019 - 2020. Blacks in Government.

Mentor to student participant and assisted with marketing for the NOAA Chapter High School STEM Competition.

Graduate Peer Mentor. 2017. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University.

Helped troubleshoot seabird telemetry home range metrics and marine mammal bycatch modeling

Mentor. 2016. Dr. Janet Nye, Quantitative Fisheries Ecology Laboratory, Stony Brook University.

Mentored high school student assisting on assessment of Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) winter survival on the NE US shelf using MATLAB

Talking to students at the Wenonah elementary school science fair about some fish most people never get to see.

Outreach

Skype and Scientist Visiting Scientist. 2018 - Present. Remote.

30+ schools across the country K-12

Science Festival Booth Presenter. 2018. USA Science and Engineering Festival.

Used the Science on Sphere (SOS) to share relationships between temperature, climate change, and changes in fish distributions.

Presenter. 2018. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Expert is in Program.

Hosted a table in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum Ocean Hall and engage with patrons about fisheries management.

WISE Program Assisting Researcher. 2016 - 2017. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University.

Stony Brook WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) working up some of the day’s data from our mini-study on blue crab temperature-dependent aerobic and anaerobic metabolism.

Plastic Pollution Outreach Program Organizer. 2014. Coastal Steward Long Island.

Wrote, designed, and ran an outreach initiative teaching local elementary and middle school students about the global marine plastic pollution problem with Coastal Steward